Re: URL-Reference / "empty URL" question
Daniel LaLiberte (liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Wed, 14 May 1997 13:02:45 -0500 (CDT)
From: Daniel LaLiberte <liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 13:02:45 -0500 (CDT)
Message-Id: <199705141802.NAA26476@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: uri@bunyip.com
Subject: Re: URL-Reference / "empty URL" question
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970514191419.245E-100000@enoshima>
<Pine.SUN.3.96.970514191419.245E-100000@enoshima>
> On Wed, 14 May 1997, Larry Masinter wrote:
>
> > "the copy of the content that is being viewed now"
> >
> > Let's give it its own URL scheme
> > "this:"
> > where the scheme-specific part of "this:" is
> > empty.
Doesnt the empty URL "" work just as well? Experience shows that
if you have an anchor such as <A HREF="">this document</A> it goes
to the same document that it is contained in.
> I'm not sure, but I seem to detect in some of the comments
> in this thread a question as to why there could be a need
> to move inside a document without every refetching it (from
> the cache or wherever).
Moving within a document without refetching it is an orthogonal issue,
I think. It is closely related to the browsing history issue.
dan